Join a daily celebration of poetry and the arts. This blog gives voice to the academics, the arts, creativity, expression and the pursuit of TRUTH. All art forms, all academic interests are timeless reflections and revelations of the human condition. Passion, poetry and the arts fuel the creative fires that move me to expression and deep gratitude. My published book of poems, THE WIND AND THE WILLOW is available at Barnes and Noble and online booksellers nationally and internationally.

About Me

Rose Marie Raccioppi, MS, FABI, is an award winning and honored master educator, an innovative and pioneering sound therapist, poet laureate, artist, advocate, activist, holding graduate degrees with honors in education and psychology. Her published book of poetry, "The Wind and the Willow," has been well received nationally and internationally. Pub. Date: June 2008, ISBN-13:9781604744545. She has received organizational, local, state and national honors for her exemplary services to children and families with special educational needs, and for her innovative development in the healing arts. She has been internationally recognized for her inspired poetry and art. She is presently designated, Poet Laureate, Orangetown, New York. Rose Marie is an active blogger, ever ready to share and expand what supports development, potential, well being, creativity and artistry. Rose Marie has been in private practice since 1983 as an educational consultant and sound therapist: http://www.apogeelearning.com
Indeed LIFE with PURPOSE.

Friday, June 24, 2011

Whirling ~ Divine Frenzy

in reverie, in silence, in the wake of a dreamvisions beyond what is of the waking mindthoughts go beyond continuity and reasoncolors as expressions of spiritlines as paths to the calling soulwords as echoes of the heart this the enfoldthe embrace of what is to manifestgestures in questa palette that beckonswords to be held anewa divine frenzythe surreal free to be itselfgalaxies in flowing swirlswhirling PRESENCE man woman all that ISthe BIRTH ETERNAL.

"A story is told according to which Saint-Pol-Roux, in times gone by, used to have a notice posted on the door of his manor house in Camaret, every evening before he went to sleep, which read: THE POET IS WORKING." Surrealism, Andre Breton, 1924

Paul-Pierre Roux, called Saint-Pol-Roux (15 January 1861, quartier de Saint-Henry, Marseille - 18 October 1940, Brest) was a French Symbolist poet. Saint-Pol-Roux equally created the notion of "idéoréalisme". He desired an artistic fusion between the real world and the world of ideas, in a Neoplatonic perspective. Neoplatonism combined ideas from Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, and the Stoics with oriental mysticism. It envisages the human soul rising above the imperfect material world through virtue and contemplation toward knowledge of the transcendent ONE. He imagined a cosmology in which Beauty - lost in the real world - has to be revealed by the poet.